THE NORHTERN COUNTIES.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume VIII, Issue 680, 18 January 1879, Page 2

THE NORHTERN COUNTIES.

DEPUTATiaNjT?)"SONv-^^HEEHAN. „ MR, .D^GAY]^^ > S fI^PBECH.. iO oa j (BY ELEOTK^a^iWRAPH.) (PEttJt OT7B.C CPfrN icaßßßßßoCNi^irß : )ii't o _ . .AuoKLAND^Pnday^ i Representativejsf of ;Jhj| Northern Counties interviewed ; tM ,Hon« fifneeha^- j|?jtiv| Minister) yest^rd^jr, to.^et,»grap.t of halfto^ million for works and subsidies, ' Mr DargavilTe iiak |%e;»B&'io? thil feoney ' to be expended oV^r^peri^inade metalled roads, bridges, .wharves,, and other perxnaneht works, . and ;t . iia, fisxwtypitifdfa' . oe spread over a per^ l^i''We'y'lwW|,dr 'sup&'' other lunited'tinie as may Be 'deemed'* rigst. We ask you to bring' these our claims before your colleagues* and 4jp urge them as ypu Well know how? We know thiat ilikcy iandrew's hearti- is in^Otagoj? jl .wish to*Gdd we had Mr Macandrew for this part of New Zealand ; I say advisedly It would 1 b&'worth a million of money^.^ ujs i^we had. The seven counties we represent number more people than half of 'Canterboryj bufcit'wouM? be so humbling to do so tiiafr I shall make no comparison between ; auß.^treatment by the Government and their's in the past. Your Government claims' to be a people's Government; you profess to- legislate not for acres,. or for sheep; or for cattte,' but for- people, -Her^-are 2Q.0Q0-4>a«pi ft^«'dift_sirantLiiotnfl-/iL their own money back,, again. We ask you . for bread, do not give us a' atone. You yourself showed spme : years-'ago>,when you were Goldfields Secretary, that this part .of the colony, was then entitle A, to a, million pounds out of the then borrowed money. We never got it.. .That being; so we fcje now entitled to much, more than we ask for. ■{[ \